The man who made Jerusalem a veritable capital was King Solomon, the son of King David.

Solomon built a series of urban buildings in Jerusalem, the most famous of which was a huge Jewish temple. The temple was more than 200 meters long and more than 100 meters wide, and it took seven years to build. The temple became a holy place in the hearts of the Jews. From this time on, the Jews regarded Jerusalem as their holy city.

Solomon's Jewish temple was built on Mount Zion in Jerusalem and surrounded by a stone wall.

According to legend, Judaism's most precious relics, the Ark of the Covenant and the Sinaitic Code, were placed in the sanctuary of the temple.

The golden "Ark of the Covenant" contained the oracle of Jehovah, Israel's most worshipped God. This was what Moses got on the top of Mount Sinai that year. God also gave Moses a set of laws and canons to be followed by the Israelites in all their affairs. After Moses received the oracle and the "Code of Sinai", he had two skilled craftsmen make a special gold chest out of gold, which was called the golden "Ark of the Covenant."

No one is allowed to enter the church except the highest elders of Judaism, the chief priests, who have the right to enter the church once a year to visit the holy relics.

Solomon was extremely wealthy.

It is said that Solomon collected the equivalent of 666 tarans of gold from his subjects every year alone.

1 taran is equivalent to 150 kilograms.

Solomon kept all the gold and silver treasures he had looted in the temple, which became known as "Solomon's Treasures" from generation to generation.

After Solomon's death, the Jewish kingdom split into two states. The south, centered on Jerusalem, was still ruled by Solomon's descendants and was called the Jewish State. In the north, there was a separate dynasty. It's called Israel. Since there was no religious center in Israel, the priests went to the Jewish temple in Jerusalem to offer sacrifices. The parishioners still make pilgrimages here, as the only holy object, the Ark of the Covenant, is still here.

By 590 BC. Nebuchadnezzar II, the king of Neo-Babylon, invaded Judea for the second time, and after three years of siege, Jerusalem was finally captured by the Babylonian army in 586 B.C., the palace and temple were burned down, and a large number of Jews were escorted to Babylon, which is the aforementioned "Babylonian captivity".

Since then, the whereabouts of the priceless treasures "Jehovah's Ark of the Covenant" and "Solomon's Golden Treasure" have been unknown.

For thousands of years, many people have wanted to find the "Ark of the Covenant" and the "Treasure of Solomon", but until today. Still inconclusive.

The first to search for the golden "ark of the covenant" was Jerelai, an elder of Israel. When Jerilai was captured in Jerusalem, he hid and was not captured by the Babylonians. When the Babylonians had withdrawn, he went to the ruins of the temple to find the golden "Ark of the Covenant" and steal it out of Jerusalem and hide it.

In the ruins of the razed temple, Jerilai saw the famous "Abrahamic Stone." It is said that the golden "Ark of the Covenant" was originally placed on this boulder. But the golden "Ark of the Covenant" has long since disappeared.

At the beginning of this century, some scholars believed that the golden "Ark of the Covenant" and "Solomon's Golden Treasure" may have been hidden in a dark hole under the "Abrahamic Stone."

The "Abrahamic Monolith" is a piece 17.7 meters long. 13.5 meters wide granite stone. It rises about 1.2 meters above the ground and is supported by marble columns. It is also a sacred relic of the Islamic religion.

Legend has it that Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was accompanied by an angel after traveling from Mecca to Jerusalem by Pegasus. He who stepped on this boulder and ascended to heaven to hear the revelation of Allah. It is said that the footprints of Muhammad when he ascended to heaven still remain on this boulder. Therefore, the "Abrahamic Stone" is considered a "holy stone" by Muslims.

The rock hall under the "sacred stone" is 30 meters high. And. There are indeed caves in the rock hall, which can completely hide the golden "Ark of the Covenant" and "Solomon's Golden Treasure".

There were several British adventurers who were informed of the opinions of scholars. Trying to find the gold "Ark of the Covenant" and treasures. These Britons bribed the night watchman of the rock hall and infiltrated the rock hall at night to excavate. As soon as it is dawn. And they disguised the mouth of the cave. In this way, they worked for several nights on end, but in the end they were discovered, and several British adventurers fled without a trace.

Later, it was said that the golden "Ark of the Covenant" and Solomon's treasure were actually hidden in the "secret way of Joah."

Legend has it that King David stumbled upon a mysterious passage from outside the city to the city during his attack on Jerusalem. It is said that this secret passage was later connected to Solomon's Temple. Long before the "Babylonian captivity," the Jews had hidden the golden "Ark of the Covenant" and Solomon's treasures into the tunnels.

In 1867, a British officer named Walling, while visiting the suburbs of Jerusalem, stumbled upon a hole with a stone staircase in the ruins of a mosque. He followed the stone staircase all the way down to the depths of the cave. Later, he discovered that there was a round hole in the rock above his head. After climbing a rope into the round hole, he found another secret passage. He followed the secret passage to another, narrow, dark cave. Finally, he managed to walk down the cave to the outside. When he came out, he was astonished to find himself standing in the city of Jerusalem.

Scholars have determined that this secret underground passage was built around 2000 B.C., and speculate that it is the "Joah's Dark Passage".

In the 30s of this century, two more Americans came to the secret tunnel to look for the gold "Ark of the Covenant" and "Solomon Treasure".

They found a secret tunnel in a different place in the "Joah's Secret Passage". There are stairs buried in the sand in the tunnels. The two tried to dig up the sand with the shovels they had with them, but the quicksand on the stairs became more and more controlled, and even the tunnel entrance was almost blocked. They fled the tunnels in a hurry. The next day, they came down to find that the entrance to the tunnel was covered with quicksand again.

Legend has it that the Golden Ark of the Covenant is no longer in Jerusalem, but is housed in an ancient temple in Aksuma, the ancient capital of Ethiopia.

It is said that one of Solomon's sons stole the real gold "Ark of the Covenant" from Jerusalem and left a false "Ark of the Covenant" in Jerusalem.

To this day, the golden "Ark of the Covenant" and Solomon's treasure are still a mystery, but no one thought that even Zhang Tianyuan himself would expect that this lost Ark of the Covenant would actually appear in the treasure vault of the Heavenly Master Hall of the Blackwater Kingdom, which was really a little too shocking to him.

Could it be that Solomon's son once went to the country of Heishui? and then hid the ark of the covenant here? But the question is, how many years has this country of Blackwater existed, and now Zhang Tianyuan only knows that the country of Blackwater was destroyed about a thousand years ago, and now the things of B.C. have appeared here, so he can't help but wonder if there may have been some country here before the country of Heishui, or who lived there.

But none of this is known until now.

Zhang Tianyuan boldly assumed that in the 500 years BC, when the Babylonian army occupied Jerusalem, someone who knew the location of the Ark of the Covenant was either a descendant of King Solomon or a member of Judaism, in short, this person knew the whereabouts of the Ark of the Covenant.

In order to prevent the Ark of the Covenant from falling into the hands of the Babylonian army, he traveled all the way to this place, which was originally a continent that could be reached without a boat ferry, and then lived a secluded life here.

At that time, there may have been only some indigenous people on the continent, or there may have been no people living on the continent at all, and some of them were just fertile land.

Later, this man, or these people died, hid the Ark of the Covenant somewhere, until the Blackwater appeared and founded the country, and then about a thousand years ago, the ten brothers of the Golden Sect arrived here and began to loot the treasure here, but accidentally found the Ark of the Covenant, because they liked gold too much, and although the Ark of the Covenant was wooden inside, it was wrapped in gold on the outside, so they robbed it and hid it in the treasure vault.

Thinking of this, Zhang Tianyuan couldn't help but be surprised, the reason why the Ark of the Covenant is valuable is because some people say that it contains things left by the Lord, including two stone slabs with the Ten Commandments inscribed, a budding walking stick used by Moses' brother Aaron, and a jar made of gold, which contains the manna that the Israelites ate during their wandering days in the wilderness.

If the Golden Sect had obtained this Ark of the Covenant, would the contents still exist?

Zhang Tianyuan hurriedly looked inside with the word appreciation technique, and he couldn't help but be ecstatic when he saw it. Although the so-called germinated cane in the legend does not exist, there are indeed two stone tablets with some words engraved on them, and a golden jar, but Zhang Tianyuan does not know the words on the stone tablet, but he thinks that it should be the Ten Commandments.

Although it does not have the power to destroy the world as imagined, but as a sacred relic of Judaism, the value of this thing can be imagined, Zhang Tianyuan feels that if he takes this thing out, it will definitely shock the world.

If those two sects want to get this thing, then exchange it for it, buddy, I'm very generous, as long as you can afford it, it doesn't make sense for me to ask for this thing, it's a holy thing for you, but for me, it's just a gold chest.

The ark of the covenant was made of acacia wood, two cubits (about 32 inches) long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high. The interior is covered with pure gold, surrounded by gold teeth, and the top of the cabinet is decorated with two opposing cherubim. The four corners of the chest had four gold rings, two at the front and two at the front, which were passed through by two levers of honey locust wood covered with gold to facilitate the opening of the chest.

Judging from this passage, the thing that Zhang Tianyuan has discovered so far is definitely a covenant ark, which makes him feel very excited in his heart, he never thought that he would find so many good things after an accident.

He did not understand why the Golden Cultists had not taken out the contents of the Ark of the Covenant, so he wanted to open the Ark of the Covenant, even though it was a sacred relic of the Israelites, and no one was allowed to touch the Ark of the Covenant without permission.

According to the Bible, a man was struck by lightning for touching the Ark of the Covenant. Moreover, outsiders who peered through the tent doors of the Holy of Holies found that clouds were often gathering above the Ark of the Covenant. (To be continued.) )